Boys in the Basement 3: Getting Meta
(Post 'Bring On The Night' and 'Long Day's Journey'.)
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“Rat?”
“Thanks.”
“Nasty chest wounds you’ve got there.”
“Yeah—evil thing bled me to open the Hellmouth.”
“Nothing new happening, then?”
“Not really. Your son still sleeping with that chit you fell for?”
“As far as I know.”
“It’s shocking, what girls do these days.”
“Some are more shocking than others. Is the Hellmouth still open?”
“I don’t think so. It closed when the Turok-Han came out.”
“The what?”
“You know-- Turok-Han. Mythological uber!vamp.”
“Oh, I remember. I used to scare Drusilla with stories about them.”
“Back in the day.”
“Back in the nights. When I was… when we were evil.”
“And we aren’t now?”
“We both have souls.”
“That doesn’t stop us being evil, Angelus.”
“I’m not Angelus any more.”
“Oh, aren’t you? Because I am. I’m still Spike, and I’m still evil, even if I try not to be.”
“Shut up, Spike.”
“What are doing, telling me to shut up? You’re a fucking hallucination.”
“No. *I'm* not! *You’re* a figment of *my* imagination!”
“Am not!”
“You mean—you’re real?”
“It’s you that’s not.”
“Spike, are we both really here?”
“Looks like to me. But I’m crazy, you don’t want to trust me.”
“No, I don’t. However, on this occasion I agree with you. Which leaves the questions how, and why, and where, are we?”
“Does it matter? There’s still some juice left in this rat.”
“Oh. Thanks.”
Am, I truly love this entire concept you've got going with this.
But I’m crazy, you don’t want to trust me
Whee!!! One of my biggest hopes for the post-Buffy world is that Spike will be around to annoy Angel.
I truly love this entire concept you've got going with this.
Thank you! One of my crazy moments that turned into a thing worth following.
One of my biggest hopes for the post-Buffy world is that Spike will be around to annoy Angel.
Life would be dull with no Spike at all, that's for sure.
BTW, connie, I want to read Ethan and the Potentials again. Have you posted it at your site? (Yes, I'm too lazy to check.)
Heheheheheh. Raaaaaaaats.
Only one thing didn't ring right - somehow, Spike calling Cordelia a "chit". Implies a younger, smaller, saucier girl to me.
Am, insent, BTW - where do you want me to send "In Re"? What info is needed? Do you and Rebecca want to handle getting it up (no pun intended)?
Yep, it should be there. [link]
Am, that's high-larious!
I have so much back-reading to do in this thread, it ain't even funny.
Insent back atcha.(edit: Deb.)
And Rebecca Lizard! We've been slashed, and not just by Deb. [link]
It's very strange: that must have been posted in the last few days, since you started writing.
Thank you, connie.
I used 'chit' because Spike hasn't, so far as I know, seen Cordelia for some years.
Thanks, amyth!
Deb, Am, thank you both so much for sharing. I love both of them.
I feel... rich.
Me too! Being slashed is fun.
Thanks, juliana.
